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• From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, Moments, Truth Is

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.140, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Wonder is retained by wise pondering.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Wise, Mystery, Wonder

  Ravi Zacharias (2005). “Recapture the Wonder”, p.156, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Blue, Civilization

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• The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.

  Natalie Merchant

  Philosophy, Crazy, Rivers

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• Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Roots, Vices, Facts

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• Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is a very beautiful letter, full of good advice. Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books...But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside, it says. Teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Beautiful, Teacher, Father

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• There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Advancement, Prosperity

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 1,

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• The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.

  Jan L. Richardson

  Running, Distance, Mean

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• Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

  Lucretius

  Fighting, Mind, Atheism

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• When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

  Ogden Nash

  Food, Mind, Consistently

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• Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.
  Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.

  Dean Koontz

  Journey, Men, Thinking

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• There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of, that sublime system which gives the venerable institution its peculiar identity as a science of morality, and it behooves every disciple diligently to ponder and inwardly digest.

  Albert Pike

  Essence, Giving, Sublime

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• It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.

  Benjamin Graham

  Lying, Evil, Four

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part I, Chapter II, Government and Surplus Stocks, p. 28, 1937.

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• God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

  George MacDonald

  Son, Men, Done

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5956, Delphi Classics

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• Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Mind, Roulette

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• I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Space, Things I Love, Gaps

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• But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Stupid, Light, People

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• All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Essence, Purpose

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• We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Adventure, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic, worries or grieves too much over matters, and ponders too intensively to know God's will, it may become unbearable and hamper its normal operation. The mind needs to be kept in a steady and secure state.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Grieving, Long

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.209, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?

  Paige Bradley

  Body, Containers, Defined

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• Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Life, Forever, Gone

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• We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.

  John Piper

  Suffering, Cherish, Christ

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• There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Men, Age

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